Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unloveliest tragedies. It is a tense, well-constructed play, dealing with the plight of an Urning among men. The girl struggles against a homosexual compulsion with all the vigor of human will, only to succumb inevitably to her own nature, consumed entirely by Lesbian fires. Men, uncomprehending, fail to help her to escape from herself. She must return to her own. Perhaps the play's weakness lies in just the same misfortune; that men and women of the audience find it hard to sympathize with these strange passions. Yet what is lacking of sympathy is counterbalanced by the peculiar...
Another innovation of the year was the silhouetting of every Freshman. These silhouettes show the defects in posture, and men who fail to equal the standard of posture set by the Medical Department will be required to attend a gymnasium class. Simple exercises designed to correct poor posture will be used in the class, and men taking it will be able to count it as their regular physical exercise. It is planned to start the gymnasium work next week...
Under the title of EDUCATION and the subtitle of "Vegetable" a rather lengthy discourse on Lydia Pinkham and her Compound is presented by TIME for Sept. 20 [p. 20]. I fail to gather the connection to Education and as to the Vegetable, I refer you to the series of articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Collier's under the title of "The Great American Fraud." Also to the booklet entitled "Female Weakness Cures" as published by The American Medical Assn...
...fail to grasp if you intend to be satirical, funny, or serious. However, I enjoy TIME beyond anything I have had the pleasure of reading as it keeps one in touch with so much without voluminous newspaper reading...
...fail to see why we should pamper these "reds" just because it is their skins that are red. Of course their forefathers owned our country. But it is the whole principle of our inheritance tax that it is wrong for children to inherit property beyond one or two generations. As long as that is so why are we so careful to give to these red Indians what our own white children cannot get? Let's have no more "reds" of any kind in our country...